cygpath -w for non-existent server

2010-12-03 Thread Andy Koppe
With non-existent server foo, and Cygwin 1.7.7 or the latest 1.7.8 snapshot: $ cygpath -w //foo/bar \\foo\bar $ cygpath -w //foo cygpath: error converting "//foo" - No such file or directory Is that as intended? Also, both only return after a few seconds delay, so I assume they trigger network

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

2010-12-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/03/2010 07:11 PM, Lee wrote: >> Or, is this a bug? No, but a "feature" of your locale. Set 'export LC_COLLATE=C', and use LANG rather than LC_ALL for all your other locale defaults, in your ~/.bashrc if you don't like it. > > Welcome to the new world order :-0 I tried to figure out why

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [experimental] Updated: findutils-4.5.9-2

2010-12-03 Thread Eric Blake
A new release of findutils, 4.5.9-2, is available for test, while 4.5.9-1 remains current. NEWS: = This is a minor release to try and fix -execdir executing in the wrong directory. If this passes testing by those who complained about the problem, then I will promote it to current next week.

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

2010-12-03 Thread Lee
On 12/3/10, Lee Rothstein wrote: > Having some problems with bash case-sensitive regexes, so I wrote > this little test. ... snip ... > Do I have some Bash or Cygwin parameter set that engenders case > insensitivity? Probably the same thing I ran into with LANG != C try this little test: $ c

Re: Problem with Bash regex test case sensitivity

2010-12-03 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-12-03 22:30Z, Lee Rothstein wrote: [script:] > if [[ "$1" =~ [A-Z] ]] ; then > echo Contains Capital Letters: $1 > else > echo Doesn\'t Contain Capital Letters: $1 > fi [...] > # WTF, O > $ t_regex dfgh > Contains Capital Letters: dfgh Inspect this option: shopt -p | grep nocas

[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: {tftp/tftp-server}-5.0-3

2010-12-03 Thread Gernot Hillier
The tftp and tftp-server packages contain client and server programs implementing the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). This protocol is normally used only for booting diskless workstations, or for file transfer to embedded clients on a closed network. The tftp package provides the client, wh

Re: Problem with lls command in nccftp

2010-12-03 Thread David Sastre
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:51:25PM +0100, gialloporpora wrote: > Risposta al messaggio di gialloporpora : > > >I am using the ncftp (version 3.2.1) client installed with the Cygwin > >environment and I have this problem. > > > >The FTP client works nice for me, I have only this little issue. When

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: inetutils-1.7-2

2010-12-03 Thread Charles Wilson
inetutils provides common networking clients and servers, including the inetd super-server, telnetd and telnet, ftpd and ftp, talkd and talk, tftpd and tftp, uucpd (but no uucp client), and syslogd. This is a compatibility release. It is intended to coordinate with the new release of the standalon

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.8q-1, openssl-devel-0.9.8q-1, libopenssl098-0.9.8q-1

2010-12-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 0.9.8q-1. This also includes the openssl-devel packages. This is an upstream security release. The Cygwin release is build from the vanilla sources, no additional patches. Official release message: ==

Re: Setting CHERE_INVOKING=1 does not work because of case mismatch

2010-12-03 Thread Danilo Turina
On 03/12/2010 7.08, Lennart Borgman wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 2 December 2010 22:31, Lennart Borgman wrote: In current cygwin (just updated) I need to downcase the test for CHERE_INVOKING in .profile to make it work To make what work? /bin/xhere, the part o

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 2 December 2010 20:49, Illia Bobyr wrote: > On 12/2/2010 2:28 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote: >> [...] >> Also, the OP said the problem was happening on pipelines like 'tail | grep'. >> Neither tail nor grep muck with tty settings (that I know of), so if the tty >> is ending up with echo disabled, it's

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 2 December 2010 20:28, Heath Kehoe wrote: >> FWIW, I can't reproduce this, even if I kill the tail or less with >> SIGKILL, thus giving them no chance to do any cleanup. (I assume you >> use 'less -K' to allow it to be ctrl-c'ed?) >> >> Which shell do people who've seen the problem use? Is it an

Re: Setting CHERE_INVOKING=1 does not work because of case mismatch

2010-12-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 3 December 2010 06:08, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 2 December 2010 22:31, Lennart Borgman wrote: >>> In current cygwin (just updated) I need to downcase the test for >>> CHERE_INVOKING in .profile to make it work >> >> To make what work? >> >>

Re: Setting CHERE_INVOKING=1 does not work because of case mismatch

2010-12-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Lennart Borgman! > I am using this to start Cygwin from a cmd prompt: > @echo off > @rem Had to change chere_invoking in .profile to lower case. > set CHERE_INVOKING=1 > C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i > Is there a better way to do it? START "" /B "C:\CygWin\bin\bash" --login -